Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/25

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Subject: [Leica] Your thoughts on a Voigtl ä nder Lens
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:06:02 -0500
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I agree, it is apples to oranges, but the film plane remains the same. 
Unfortunately, I don't have a WA to contribute to the process.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Slobodan Dimitrov" <s.dimitrov at charter.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Your thoughts on a Voigtl ? nder Lens


> Let's see something with an Isco Westron 35 f2.8, or a 20mm f4  Flektogon?
> Showing a telephoto sample against a wide angle sample is not a  credible 
> comparison.
> S.d.
>
> On Mar 25, 2009, at 3:32 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>
>> Hey S.D.,
>>
>> Let's don't knock the old hardware that can no longer speak for  itself. 
>> I never used Soviet film, but I can speak for the Exacta/ Exa family.  My 
>> Exacta died, but its little brother, the Exa, still  marches on.  The 
>> link below shows what the Exa can do, even when  equipped with another 
>> stepchild, the Steinheil 2.8/85mm Culminar  lens.  I don't see an image 
>> problem.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Nose+Gear+Lights.jpg.html
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Slobodan Dimitrov" 
>> <s.dimitrov at charter.net>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 5:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Your thoughts on a Voigtl ? nder Lens
>>
>>
>>> I keep seeing these golf ball grain images taken with the 21mm. It  is 
>>> really a disservice to the optics not to use a slow, fine grain  film.
>>> Most of the examples I've just seen might as well been taken with  an 
>>> Exakta using Soviet film. That's not Leica photography as  passed down 
>>> by our predecessors.
>>> S.d.
>>>
>>>
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